Hello ESA Student members! Thank you to everyone who attended the ESA Student Section business meeting/pizza lunch today in the Student Lounge! We had a great meeting, filled with a lively discussion and fantastic suggestions for next year's Student Section activities. We are looking for volunteers to organize or participate in some of next year's proposed Student Section activities. A list of these activities includes:
ESA annual meeting: 1) Coordinate education outreach activities at next year's Milwaukee meeting! This includes ecology education activities for k-12 science educators, undergraduate, graduate students, and postdocs. 2) Organize Student Section sponsored sessions - How to succeed in Ecology, What Editors Want, Communicating Science to the Public. Networking/outreach opportunities: 1) Re-vamp the website - design, content, links, blogs, etc. 2) Start a Student Section Newsletter! - design, writers, researchers, etc. 3) ESA Student Section Wiki and/or Facebook group! 4) Establish local chapters - working with the ESA SEEDS program (http://www.esa.org/seeds/) to coordinate year-round activities in your region. Volunteering for Student Section activities is a great way to increase your visibility, networking opportunities, and outreach within ESA and the broader scientific community. If you would like to volunteer to work with the Student Section on developing these or other exciting ideas over the next year, please e-mail Jenny Talbot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and tell us what you would like to do! Thanks, ESA Student Section board Jenny Talbot University of California Irvine Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 321 Steinhaus Hall Irvine, CA 92697-2525 Tel: 949 824 2729 Fax: 949 824 2181 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://grad.bio.uci.edu/ecoevo/jtalbot/index.html
